Scott Adams Thread (Garfield Cartoonist)

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Microplastics: If that scales and doesn't lead to the extinction of squid -- that could be the story of the decade. Microplastics much more 'real' than Anthropogenic [stupid spellchecker] Climate Shenanigans.

Statue of Liberty: He's a couple of steps behind. Elon said after he lasered it he put it back before anyone noticed, and where the lasers came from.

Melinda Gates: What's with the insanely rich ex's/widows. Her and Laurene Powell Jobs.

Scott Adams: "Your body is your brain"
Jimi Hendrix: "Are you experienced"

Trillionaire [stupid spellchecker]? He failed to include SpaceX and Starlink. But as he says, Starlink's profits will be reinvested toward going to Mars.

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Originally Posted by freebeard

Trillionaire [stupid spellchecker]? He failed to include SpaceX and Starlink. But as he says, Starlink's profits will be reinvested toward going to Mars.

On another forum, the dullards proclaim that wealthy people spend their days Scrooge-McDucking in a money bin, and that real investment involves appropriating wealth and distributing it based on arbitrary intersectional criteria. They specifically point to Elon, asking what he's ever done to invest in the economy. Their argument stops somewhere around "he didn't start Tesla" or "he didn't invent the lithium ion battery".

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On his recommendation I'm listening to Marc Andreessen on Bari Weiss.

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I consider Bari the gold standard in podcast hosting, despite having a fraction of the audience of Joe.

As a tangent, I want Dave Rubin to go back to hosting rather than content creating, as he is way better at the former than the latter. I'd also like Peterson to go back to lecturing instead of hosting, though he's also very good in a group of experts setting. For some reason, a small group of people tends to limit his too frequent interruptions, which happens when he's one-on-one and leading the discussion.

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I like Danny Jones.

New DMT Experiment Finds 'Alien Code' Hidden in the Fabric of Reality | Danny Goler
-- 277K views 2 weeks ago

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This would be off topic in the Cliemate thread, so here:

Chris Langan - The Interview THEY Didn't Want You To See - CTMU [Full Version; Timestamps]

First off -- the set! Trivial in Blender but nontrivial in real life.

Fascinating to listen to, he can make word salad make sense. I'm 1/4 of the way through at the moment but I need to be doing other things.

He and I share an 'orgin story'; in high school they wouldn't even tell me my Intelligence Quotent, to keep my humble, they said. So I went from a farmland high school into a leftist University. But I stuck it out and wound up (in two senses) a voice in the wilderness and he formulated his CTMU.

One thing that jumps out is Self-Simulation. And his connection of state and process reminds me of Authur M. Young's The Geometry of Meaning.

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Originally Posted by freebeard

Fascinating to listen to, he can make word salad make sense. I'm 1/4 of the way through at the moment but I need to be doing other things.

He and I share an 'orgin story'; in high school they wouldn't even tell me my Intelligence Quotent, to keep my humble, they said. So I went from a farmland high school into a leftist University. But I stuck it out and wound up (in two senses) a voice in the wilderness and he formulated his CTMU.

I'll give it a listen later, as this probably requires more attention than a SA episode.

I was a TAG (talented and gifted) student from 1st grade, but I don't recall that changing my formal educational trajectory other than my parents being told that I'm likely to be bored at school, which is correct. Always had the "opportunity" for AP classes, but why would I choose more homework when high school achievements don't matter in the labor economy?

Never took the SAT or other formal predictors of IQ, but informal tests have me around 134, which means I'm underperforming that highest predictor of success.

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Episode 2690 -- ?t=434

7:15 meanwhile in Japan they've developed a drug that can regrow human
7:21 teeth like in your body so you you take a shot and your
7:28 adult teeth grow back in if they're not there I guess but what if you already
7:33 have adult teeth does it does the new stuff push the old teeth out I have
7:39 questions how how could your body know when to grow a tooth and when not to wouldn't it grow teeth everywhere and
7:46 then just push your old ones out like baby teeth get pushed out well I don't know that but apparently it's a real
7:53 thing it's already developed and it's already tested and they showed a reporter a reporter who was looking at
8:00 her own teeth and was like oh my God there's two new teeth just started growing I don't know I'm not I'm not
8:06 sure I totally believe that now the the purpose is for people with lost teeth the purpose is not for somebody who has
8:13 already a full a full mouth of good teeth
8:19 anyway I guess all it does is block a protein and that's all it needed to do that's all it needed to do it was easy

Truly a Golden Age. I read about growing new [individual] teeth twenty years ago, but the process was really invasive. Ten years ago the whole set.

Big Dentistry will need to embrace and extend...

edit: the first day on the job story was pretty good.

2nd edit: ...and it's only ?t=2232. He doesn't recognize that the UFOs over Eugene, OR are different to the Coast County phenomena. Those are hypersonic red discs.

Oregon UAP/UFO mystery - Radar analysis and ATC - December 2024

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Once again. a California resident focuses on the drone [midget] pilot training on the East coast, and ignores the hypersonic red disks one state North.

His suggestions at the end are pretty good. That deskpad is just a big mousepad. He likes the acoustic and thermal properties. I like that things won't roll of onto the floor.

You can buy neoprene wetsuit material by the yard.

Before the $1K 13" graphics tablet. I'd try the $60 7" Raspberry Pi touch screen.

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I've been bored of recent episodes mostly due to drone talk. I'd have a hard time talking for 90 minutes every morning if I didn't repeat a bunch of stuff and have the "news" feed me the topics to discuss, so I'm being critical while respecting that entertaining people on a daily basis is nearly impossible.

The drone subject reminds me of China Balloons; which I consider to be a waste of my storage capacity and limited amount of 'concern' bandwidth.

Most of my criticisms on most things are with regard to how uninteresting something is, or wasting limited amount of awareness on something unimportant.